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We’ve put together a list of web sites that you can visit to get more information about getting involved in your community. Whether it’s finding local opportunities or finding organizations rewarding kids for taking action in their communities, there is something here for everyone. If you know of a great site that should be listed here, please email us and let us know!

SERVEnet.org
This site offers service and volunteering opportunities. Through SERVEnet, users can enter their zip code, city, state, skills, interests, and availability and be matched with organizations needing help. SERVEnet is also a place to search for calendar events, job openings, service news, recommended books, and best practices.

www.Volunteermatch.org
VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations. Read more in our latest annual report.

America’s Promise
The mission of America’s Promise is to mobilize people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth by fulfilling Five Promises to the nation’s youth. This site offers resources for career development, opportunities to give back through community service, and much more.

A Spring of Hope

A Spring of Hope is made up of a group of students with a common goal, to impact another\\'s life for the benefit of the world community. It is our mission to bring opportunities to learn and thrive to African children who are restricted by poverty or illness. Schools in many parts of Africa cannot produce successful adults that will make a difference in their country without necessities. Whether these are clinic facilities, school supplies, or even running water, A Spring of Hope will do everything in its power to provide schools in impoverished areas with these necessities.

California Volunteers
CaliforniaVolunteers is charged with increasing the number of Californians involved with service and volunteerism throughout the state. CaliforniaVolunteers administers programs such as AmeriCorps and Citizen Corps, the Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning, guides policy development to support the non-profit and service fields, and is responsible for the coordination of CaliforniaVolunteers.org, a statewide network that matches Californians to volunteer opportunities in their communities.

Childreach
Childreach helps children and families living in 43 developing countries around the world to develop long-term solutions to break out of the cycle of poverty through community-based programs revolving around five areas: growing up healthy, learning, livelihood, habitat, and building relationships.

Children for Children Foundation
Founded by a group of parents in New York City, the Children for Children Foundation’s mission is to endow the next generation with a sense of responsibility for others and encourage them to participate in the greater community.

Corporation for National and Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service connects Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to give back to their communities and their nation through voluntary service.

Dollars for Darfur
This organization was started by two high school students who got ‘tired of waiting for others to change the world’. In Darfur, hundreds of people a day are raped, starved and murdered by the Sudanese armed forces and a Sudanese government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed. At least 400,000 people have died and more than 2 million Darfurians have been left homeless. You and your high school can help join the fight to stop the killing.

Do Something
This is a national network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them.

Earth Force
Earth Force helps provide youth with knowledge and skills to discover and implement lasting solutions to environmental issues in their community. Earth Force Youth Advisory Boards, also known as YAB, gives youth a chance to be leaders and work to involve other youth on environmental issues. In the process, they develop life-long habits of active citizenship and environmental stewardship.

Excel Youth Zone (xyz)
Excel Youth Zone promotes youth as resources and leaders in their local, regional and global communities.

Global Youth Service Day
Global Youth Service Day works collaboratively with organizations around the world to mobilize young people in countries everywhere to carry out community improvement projects.

Idealist Kids and Teens
This site is a project of Action Without Borders that offers resources and ideas for youth and teachers for activism. Read about organizations started by kids, find volunteering opportunities, learn about how to get involved in the world of important causes around you, and much more.

Kids Can Make A Difference
Kids Can Make A Difference® (KIDS), an educational program for middle- and high school students, focuses on the root causes of hunger and poverty, the people most affected, solutions, and how students can help. Click to find out what kids can do to make a difference.

Kids for Community
Kids for Community is for children and teens looking for volunteer opportunities in New York City; parents who want to get their kids involved in the community; teachers striving to develop their service learning programs; and organizations that value young volunteers.

Kids Helping Kids

Kids Helping Kids is a unique organization that evolved from a 10 year-old\\'s simple idea and big heart to raise $240 in order to keep one Ghanaian child out of trafficking into a fundraising and leadership movement for global transformation. We provide leadership experiences with children through volunteerism and fundraising.

Just For Kids
Volunteer Houston has put together this great site, filled with information on topics such as: What’s Hot for Kids, 10 Good Reasons for Kids to Volunteer, Ideas for Self Starters, and Useful and Fun Links.

Kids Care Clubs
Ten years ago, a group of children got together to rake a lawn for an elderly neighbor. That was the beginning of Kids Care Clubs. Visit their site to learn how you can start your own club and see what other kids are doing.

Making a Difference 101
A Practical Step-by-Step Guide for Kids. This workbook is a fun and easy way to figure out what you want to do and how you want to help and gives you all the tools to make it happen!

National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation is the nation's largest member-supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, businesses and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment. Learn how you can take action.

Network for Good
Network for Good is a nonprofit collaboration to help nonprofit organizations increase capacity, reach new audiences, and build Internet strategies. Explore volunteering opportunities, learn how to start a nonprofit, and see a list of resources on working in the nonprofit sector.

Operation TeddyCare
We collect NEW Teddy Bears from caring people everywhere (like you!) Then we provide the Teddy Bears FREE to qualified counselors, medical professionals, rescue and law enforcement personnel. They give them to kids impacted by conflicts, war, violence, abuse, neglect, natural disasters, accidents, or life-threatening illness.

Playpumps International
PlayPumps International’s mission is help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to clean drinking water, enhancing public health, and offering play equipment to millions across Africa.

Roots and Shoots
The Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen—for our communities, for animals and for the environment. And it all starts with you! With tens of thousands of young people in almost 100 countries, the Roots & Shoots network branches out across the globe, connecting youth of all ages who share a common desire to help make our world a better place.

Sports Gift
Kids Helping Kids Play Sports - The charity Sports Gift offers students and others community service opportunities to help underprivileged children all over the world play sports. Collect used sports equipment at your school, sports league or other location and Sports Gift distributes it to children living in poverty all over the world. Your old sports equipment can provide hope to a boys and girls living in poverty, so please contact Sports Gift for more information.

Student Voices Resource Center
Student Voices Resource Center is a place for students to share their views and opinions about technology in education. The website includes: How-To-Guides, Sucess Stories, Focus Chats, and other relevant resources

Student Volunteer Network
Student Volunteer Network is a student-led nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting the high school and nonprofit communities in Colorado.

The Virtual Volunteering Project
This organization supports the growth and success of volunteer activities that can be accomplished, in part or entirely, through the Internet.

Volunteer San Diego
Volunteer San Diego, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, directs capacity-building programs and services that engage volunteers in working hand-in-hand with nonprofit agencies to develop strong and vibrant communities. Its mission is to engage individuals and groups in meaningful volunteer opportunities that meet real community needs, and its vision is to make volunteering a way of life for all San Diegans. Volunteer San Diego connects volunteers with opportunities to make a difference in their communities by assisting nonprofits, businesses, and schools in developing effective and efficient volunteer programs, and by promoting the power of volunteerism, community service and civic engagement.

YouthNOISE
An initiative of Save the Children, YouthNOISE works to inspire, connect, and empower youth to help young people everywhere by volunteering, fundraising and speaking out.

Youth Service California
Since 1990, Youth Service California has been working to ensure that all young people in California are empowered to make a positive difference in their community via quality community service, service learning, and youth organizing experiences.

NESTLE Very Best in Youth
Created to spotlight the best in youth leadership, the program identifies teens whose efforts are making a profound impact in lives other than their own. Nestlé helps young people who want to make a difference realize their dreams by donating $1,000 in the name of each winner to the charity of his/her choice.

Angel Soft ® Angels in Action ® Award
Do you know a child who is making a difference for his or her community, a charity or a cause? If so, nominate this outstanding youth for the Angel Soft Angels in Action Award Program. They will have the chance to be selected as one of three grand-prize winners, or fifteen first-prize winners who together will be awarded more than $50,000 in prizes

Do Something Awards
Since 1996, DoSomething.org has honored the nation's best young world-changers, 25 and under*. Do Something Award nominees and winners represent the pivotal "do-ers" in their field, cause, or issue. The five nominees will be rewarded with a community grant, participation in a live VH1 TV show, media coverage and continued support from DoSomething.org. The grand prize winner will receive $100,000 during the live broadcast.

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards honor young people in middle level and high school grades for outstanding volunteer service to their communities.